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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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le twigs of several speciesform the basis of the wickerware industry. Tannin is obtainedfrom the bitter bark. In Holland and other countries willows areplanted to hold the banks of streams and ditches. Willowbranches formed the original jetties that opened and kept open tonavigation the channel of the Mississippi. Willows are amongour best trees for quick-growing shelter belts, in the newer partsof the country. They furnish ornamental and shade trees ofvalue—pretty when young, dignified in age. The cultivation of willows is very easy. A twig stuck intomoist soil grows into a tree. Willow posts set out green soongrow into roadside trees, thus serving a double purpose. Indamp situations their roots drain and greatly improve the land..Many species have twigs that snap off at the base. These twigsstrike root if they fall on damp ground; many waterside willowscast their twigs in this way, and the stream carries them down,lodging them on shoals and bars, which soon become clothed with 156
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